Sorry guys and gals, but it’s now six months since I escaped from Giant Berkhamsted
- it used to be Great Berkhamsted, but the commuters and parents of those attending
a certain school that is increasingly taking over the town, have all but destroyed
what I once knew as my home town, so it seems a pointless tasks maintaining this
site and pretending it’s a great place to live so I’m going to introduce you to a
place I’m finding pleasant to live in. This will take a little time, so complain
if you want, it won’t make any difference, but you could always try to improve Berkhamsted
if you really care!

Memory Lane Walks - Having lived in the town for a few years, we do not have the
likes of Percy Birtchnell to reflect ‘happenings’, so I started an imaginary walk
in the 1950’s. Judging by the downloads, you seem to like it, so I’m doing a similar
stroll starting from the same place, but instead of going round the southern side
of town, this one goes into the urban roads and expands on the town centre

Walk around town - This was a result of being involved with the Parish Path Partnership
project. The walk around the town was supposed to be an audio trail around the town
footpaths, but the partnership decided to take my draft script and have ‘audio points’.
Not quite what I envisaged so being a real pain in the......, I have produced a circular
walk along the lines I imagined.

It is a circular walk with three starting points (Station, top of Chesham Road and
A4251 lay-by(s) at the Hemel end of town). It is in three sections with two small
diversions to avoid steps which can be viewed as pdf files with descriptions and
photos. I did some real-time audio mp3 files but I was not happy with my failure
of being able to walk, talk and read at the same time (go on, try it!) so have removed
those.

Following my realisation that the small market town that I grew up in, has well and
truly morphed into yet another commuter town on the outskirts of London simply for
residents to bed and breakfast, we decided to ‘escape to the country’ and finally
settled in a small village just to the north of Leicester.

As a result, I’m here and not there, but can be contacted in the usual way. I will,
no doubt, return on occasions, but I’m sorry to say, the majority has spoilt it for
the few. Buy to let has been the latest money making nail in the coffin.

It seems that you are not allowed to hang on to a telephone number for more than
6 months so come 21st September 2016, it will no longer be diverted and I expect
some poor unsuspecting soul will start getting strange calls that should be coming
to me as after nearly 40 years they will suffer as did those of a previous number
of mine (257816) and that was only for 10 years!

I still have material not yet published, and I hope to add to the existing material
as I get time. If you want something in particular, then get in contact, otherwise
my other sites will reflect our lives up in the depths of Leicestershire.

www.normcall.com and www.normancutting.co.uk

In case you are wondering, this is the sort of thing just 10 minutes walk from our
front door - would be quicker but there is a large field between this (Wanlip Meadow)
amd our back garden, so we have to go round it.

Just beyond is Watermead Country Park which happens to have the Grand Union Canal
passing through it.